Political ideology Quote by Chris Hedges

“If the West once undermined and helped to ultimately defeat the USSR by uniting free market economics, cool culture, and democratic politics into one…

— Peter Pomerantsev

“The historical moment when Bolshevism triumphed for itself in Russia and social democracy fought victoriously for the old world marks the inauguration of the…

— Guy Debord

“As demonstrated in Russia and numerous other countries, when faced with a choice between democracy without capitalism or capitalism without democracy, Western elites unhesitatingly…

— Michael Parenti

“Everything is PR” has become the favorite phrase of the new Russia; my Moscow peers are filled with a sense that they are both…

— Peter Pomerantsev

“(...) the interaction of Social Democratic ideals with the realities of Russian society lead to the creation of a new social type, the praktik,…

— Lars T. Lih

“Russians consider themselves civilized Europeans, but have to endure the humiliation of daily encounters with officials that belong in a squalid dictatorship.”

— Oliver Bullough

“At the time of the October Revolution, the Russian intellectual elite had been both a part and a partner to the European conversation about…

— Masha Gessen

“The fall of the protecting class walls transformed the slumbering majorities behind all parties into one great unorganized, structureless mass of furious individuals who…

— Hannah Arendt

“When we fall into the trap of ethnicization and collective responsibility, we collude with Nazi and Soviet propagandists in the abolition of political thought…

— Timothy Snyder

“In a situation of manipulation, the Left is almost always tempted by a “quick return to power,” forgets the necessity of joining with the…

— Paulo Freire

“Members of the educated elite upheld open-mindedness as the supreme political virtue but refused to debate their own idea of the good life, perhaps…

— Christopher Lasch

“It is especially humbling that the simplest Trotskyist, council communist or anarcho-syndicalist militant saw much more clearly than famous and brilliant theorists that, however…

— G. M. Tamas